A classified briefing Tuesday on Ukraine devolved into a shouting match about border security as senators described a tense meeting that did little to break the Senate’s stalemate over whether to include tighter immigration policies in the aid package.
The first question instead of asking our panelists, he called on Lankford to give a five-minute talk about the negotiations on border,” Schumer said.
“It was just obvious, elephant in the room issue of the administration, in their supplemental request – the second-largest element in the supplemental request is for the border.
Schumer said earlier Tuesday that Republicans are free to bring up a border security package as an amendment, and if it can get 11 Democratic votes, it can pass.
“They have a golden opportunity if they wanted to do border,” Schumer said.
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